Tuesday, 1 June 2010

Paperback reader

I am off to America next week and I am, of course, very excited (please don't hate me, it is a much needed holiday).

I would love your help with some recommendations of good paperbacks (for they are light and my suitcase will not be) that I could take with me. Pretty much everything on my wish list seems to have a long delivery time, be in hardback or be far too serious for sun loungers and twelve hour flights.

So if you could help me with paperbacks that will be easy to get in the next few days, are suitable for long plane journeys and attention spans made short by the combination of time changes, sun and hopefully cocktails I would be very, very grateful.

I have to admit, I often pack one...and buy one at the airport. There's something about the permission to buy "trashy"...plus, I'm lucky that our airport has a good bookstore.

Okay, I have to 'fess up to another travel habit: a pile of periodicals. Again, pick 'em at the airport, and keep them in the room. Will generally go for a Vanity Fair, a specialty mag, a literary mag, an Economist...and maybe a glossy gossip something. (Yes, okay, VF is basically that. But with more words. ;) )

You're all so kind and these seem like great suggestions. I am ordering some Isherwood, Maile and Sittenfield- and have already got Eat Pray Love last night! Pam I am only not getting Gerald because I already have and adore this too!

Scentscelf- oh there will be periodicals worry not! I am exactly the same, I like a nice pile of glossies and a few high brow ones for the plane- and will have fun reading some American magazines that are hard to get here when I'm there too.

I am off to LA and Vegas! I would love to go to New Orleans, san Francisco and lots of other places but the opportunity came up to go to these and I can't wait.

Books - I always take an Agatha Christie with me, as I cannot go anywhere without her books. I am also enjoying her books under the name of Mary Westmacott - the one I am reading at the moment is called 'Absent in the Spring' - quite chilling, in a way. More affairs of the heart/emotions than whodunnits.

I also think you cannot go too far wrong with a Jackie Collins book for a holiday read - Lucky is my favourite.

I am very into Daphne du Maurier at the moment (no, you say!) so The House on the Strand would be another.

Hi MM- I've never read any Candace you know but I think that is just the kind of thing for holidays. I have ordered some online and am going to look at the airport too so will look at all the CB's! (I'm never going to manage to read all these but I can always carry on when I'm back!)

Jayne- I love Agatha too- she's such a good writer, you can read her stories even when you know what happens and enjoy them. I might take one- I always like to have them on the go!

Ballad of the Londoner by James Elroy Flecker

Evening falls on the smoky walls, And the railings drip with rain,And I will cross the old river To see my girl again.

The great and solemn-gliding tram, Love's still-mysterious car,Has many a light of gold and white, And a single dark red star.I know a garden in a street Which no one ever knew;I know a rose beyond the Thames, Where flowers are pale and few.

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